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Concerns grow over Palestinian arrivals in SA
The Mercury
|November 17, 2025
A GROUP of Palestinians arrived at O. R. Tambo International Airport on November 13 on a chartered flight, sparking questions about how they travelled and whether they were forcibly displaced.
The group initially faced challenges entering the country due to incomplete documentation, but the Department of Home Affairs intervened and granted them entry.
Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers then stepped in to accommodate the arrivals.
Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of Gift of the Givers, expressed concern about the circumstances under which the Palestinians were brought to South Africa. He said the organisation does not yet know who arranged the flight.
"But we do know that the plane that came from Kenya to South Africa was chartered via Global Aviation," Sooliman told Al Jazeera.
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